2015 Outpost Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
SKU #1349446
95 points
Jeb Dunnuck
Moving to the Bordeaux releases, the 2015 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon is 100% Cabernet that spent 20 months in 80% new French oak. Deep purple color and loaded with textbook Howell Mountain blue fruits, graphite, and crushed rock, it’s full-bodied, impeccably balanced, and has fine, polished tannin. It’s a complex, complete Cabernet Sauvignon to drink over the coming 20 years or so.
(12/2017)
95 points
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon gives up notions of cassis, blackberries, black cherries and plums with touches of pepper, aniseed, sage and tilled soil plus a hint of cedar chest. Medium to full-bodied, taut and firmly structured, it has a lively backbone lifting the muscular fruit, finishing on a savory/mineral note. (LPB)
(12/2017)
94 points
Vinous
Outpost's 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon is fabulous. Aromatically intense and penetrating, the 2015 is endowed with tremendous fruit density and structure. All of the natural richness of the year comes through in bold, racy, cherry jam, espresso, chocolate and licorice flavors. Everything falls into place in an ample, large-scaled Cabernet that captures the essence of the Outpost house style under the direction of proprietor Frank Dotzler and winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown. (AG)
(3/2018)
